The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.